Author: Adriana Di Polo
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: neuroprotection, ocular
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2003-07-15
List price: $199.95
ISBN-10: 082474070X
ISBN-13: 9780824740702

Recent advances have suggested the significant benefits associated with neuroprotection—that is, when treatment strategies are directed to photoreceptors, retinal ganglion cells, or other neural targets. Enter Ocular Neuroprotection, the only handbook of research methods in neuroprotection of ocular disease covering both laboratory and clinical levels, to aid researchers studying the prevention of neuronal death from these and other hard-to-treat ophthalmic disorders.

Authors:Adriana de Souza e Silva, Daniel M. Sutko, Adriana d
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: digital, formations, playspaces, merging, cityscapes, urban
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-07-06
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1433105322
ISBN-13: 9781433105326

The convergence of smartphones, GPS, the Internet, and social networks has given rise to a playful, educational, and social media known as location-based and hybrid reality games. The essays in this book investigate this new phenomenon and provide a broad overview of the emerging field of location-aware mobile games, highlighting critical, social scientific, and design approaches to these types of games, and drawing attention to the social and cultural implications of mobile technologies in contemporary society. With a comprehensive approach that includes theory, design, and education, this ed

Author: Marco Polo
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: world, literature, classics, wordsworth, marco, polo, travels
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-08-05
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1853264733
ISBN-13: 9781853264733

Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo’s journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo’s contemporaries. Encompassing a twenty-four year period from 1721, Polo’s account details his travels in the service of the empire, from Beijing to northern India and ends with the remarkable story of Polo’s re

Author: Marco Polo
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: polo, marco, travels
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2007-10-15
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1602068615
ISBN-13: 9781602068612

It was perhaps the first book to achieve best-seller status before the invention of the printing press-it was certainly the most controversial. Did Venetian trader and explorer MARCO POLO (1254-1324) actually reach the court of Kublai Khan, serve the emperor as his emissary, and journey the distant lands of Cathay for 17 years, as he relates in his Travels of Marco Polo? The question still hasn’t quite been settled today... but whether Polo experienced firsthand the wonders of ancient China, retold tales he heard from Arab travelers along the Silk Road, or simply invented half his

Author: Ginie Polo Sayles
Publisher: Berkley
Keywords: rich, marry
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 1992-06-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0425133052
ISBN-13: 9780425133057

An expert on marrying the wealthy offers the aspiring ``kept’’ woman or man advice on where to meet a rich person, how to get noticed by one, and ultimately, how to parlay this meeting into a profitable trip to the altar.

Authors:Marco Polo,  Manuel Komroff,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: polo, marco, travels
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $16.70
ISBN-10: 0393979687
ISBN-13: 9780393979688

Chosen as one of the ten best adventure books of all time by National Geographic Adventure, The Travels of Marco Polo remains a wondrous and exciting story. Chronicling the thirteenth-century world from his birthplace, Venice, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places like Persia, the land of the Tartars, Tibet, and, most important, China. There he stays at the court of Kublai Khan, venturing to both the capital of Beijing and Shangtu, made immortal in Coleridge’s poem "Xanadu." We become travelers along

Authors:Marco Polo, Ronald Latham,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: polo, marco, travels
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1958-09-30
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0140440577
ISBN-13: 9780140440577

Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked c